THE STORY CONTINUES

Hello readers,

I'm back with my second post, this time with more pictures :)

This is where I study Molecular Biology.

That's Rami Abdul Rahman (pink shirt), who's phone was used to take this picture. Cheers to Rami :D

This is also the main building of our university, where the dean's office is located and other administrations and accounting takes place.

The professor teaching us is in his 40s, who's English is surprisingly good for a Moldovan. At my first lecture, I tried hard to keep up with his speed, and my colleagues weren't even trying. We then met him after the class and that's when he realized that we 8 were new students, and so, from the second lecture onward he slowed down and since he was our teacher too, we caught up quick.

There's a canteen and another shop behind the building, next to a beautiful fountain. We usually eat from this canteen since food is cheaper than other places and also good enough for its price.

Nicolae Testemitanu (1927 - 1986)

The next place I'm about to show, is the building where I study Anatomy and Histology.

Our Anatomy professor for the first semester was a cannon-mouth, we had absolutely no idea when she would burst out with fast and furious romanian (my roommate, Sreerag,  was sadly a victim of her fury since he wasn't paying attention). Besides, she taught us extremely well, despite her busy schedule. Well, we did have her class a lot, since we had it 5 days a week to catch up with others.

Well dear readers, I conclude my second blog here.

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THE LATE BEGINNING

Hello readers.

My name is George Alan, and this is my first blog about life of a student studying GENERAL MEDICINE in a country named Moldova. I'm an Indian, from the state of Kerala, and I came here with high hopes of achieving my dreams of becoming a doctor, but ever since reaching here, life isn't how I expected it to be, in good and bad ways, so I decided to write this blog to share my experiences of how the life of a student is in this university. For those who haven't heard, Moldova is a post-russian country, sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania.

I am currently a first year student studying in a university called USMF - Universitatea de Stat de Medicină și Farmacie "Nicolae Testemițanu" (State University of Medicine and Pharmacy) (usmf.md) . If you are wondering what language this is, its Romanian, which is the predominant language here, but Russian is also a widely spoken language here.

So to start off, let me describe how the courses are in this university.

The General Medicine course lasts for 6 years, and the Dentistry course lasts for 5 years.

Though the main language here is Romanian, my course is in English.

There are 2 semesters each year, which means there are a total of 12 semesters, each of which are 5 months long, and after every 2 semesters there are 2 months of holidays, which are on July and August. The academic year always starts on the first week of September.

I have currently finished a very hard first semester, and currently trying to finish an even harder second semester. Well, the first semester was hard for me since I came 3 months late (Hence, the title) and we had to cram up a lot of stuff in 2 months to finish on time. Well, I came late because I got to know about this university around September. Thanks to a consultancy group called Phoenix Consultants (http://www.phoenixconsultanteurope.com), I got admission here in-spite of my late application.

I came in a group of 8 Indian-Keralite people. We are more commonly referred to as Malayalees, since our mother-tongue is Malayalam. 

There are 7 subjects for the first semester; Anatomy, Histology, Molecular Biology, Latin, Romanian, Biophysics, and Philosophy.

At first, we struggled a bit since we had a whole lot of things to learn, but since we had good professors to teach us in the beginning, and also because of our helpful and friendly seniors, we got through. Anatomy was a real pain, but we somehow coped with it. Histology was interesting at times, but it gets boring very quickly. Molecular Biology was the sole subject that had my full interest, but only I had that level of interest in it, unlike my colleagues, and Biophysics was commonly the most hated subjects of all indians in this university. Since we had so much to finish from these 4 subjects, the university decided to make us learn the other 3 subjects later on in the second semester.

Well, I hereby conclude my first blog, and if you'd like to contact me, you can email me, or message me on facebook. Please leave a feedback in the comment section if you have any, which will be very much appreciated by me. Please share my blog too if you can, which is also appreciated :)

I will be posting more soon, with more pictures.

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